It is tonight. I can't see them doing anything but leaving a cliff hanger for this season (but I will wait):
Crib Sheet for the Finale (spoilers if you have not been watching).
The Atlantic's Christopher Orr gives its speculation… (the links to the various clues are well done)
And then the answer pops out for Orr here (only a link HBO might like).
Update:
I don't want to give it away. Well done, but…
It is over for McConaughey and Harrelson…
This collection of theories are mostly wrong or just superficial…(don't bother till you see the finale)
Ace is correct about his take on the show:
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| The New Yorker has a pretty good article on parody and commentary of the series… |
The Atlantic's Christopher Orr gives its speculation… (the links to the various clues are well done)
And then the answer pops out for Orr here (only a link HBO might like).
Update:
I don't want to give it away. Well done, but…
It is over for McConaughey and Harrelson…
This collection of theories are mostly wrong or just superficial…(don't bother till you see the finale)
Ace is correct about his take on the show:
The show ultimately was, as Pizzolato said, not about the serial killer at all, but about the two men, Hart and Cohle, and their long, rocky relationship with one another.
And it's about mystery. The serial killer plot is a pretext to explore mystery -- and evil -- and philosophy -- and sex -- and all the rest of it, but in the end, the show was about the mystery and muddle of life. Not about some Hannibal Lecter-like supercriminal and his lunatic beliefs.
In the end, he wasn't the interesting one; the heroes were the interesting ones.
There's no reason to end this season w/ a cliffhanger. It would kill viewership for next season, which will involve a different set of detectives in a different part of the country.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are right. It seems like the pacing is off for a complete resolution tonight (for an hour episode). Have you heard the leads are not coming back next season?
DeleteYou are right, it has to get resolved one way or the other tonight.
DeleteThey're definitely not coming back.
ReplyDeleteSpeculation is rampant about who'll be in it and where it'll be set. Or even what time period it'll be set in.
Leading guess right now seems to be some sort of LA noir thing.
Wow. Excellent final episode.
ReplyDeleteI liked it too. But I knew there was no way they were wrapping up the various players. So what was up with Marty's daughter. Marty's father in law, the Tuttles, etc. They left it so it could continue (and I think that was the point).
DeleteI'm always ready to help.
DeleteMarty's daughter was a rebellious teen acting out to get her father's attention away from his booze and mistresses.
Marty's father-in-law died from cirrhosis of the liver in 2013.
The Tuttles own the cops and so will not be held accountable for anything, as indicated by the news report on the radio playing in the background toward the end of the show. IRL, not all problems get solved, not all wrongs get righted. But you can light a part of the darkness, like that lone star (SWIDT?) in the black night sky.
Killing Errol put an end to Rust's quest to atone for whatever fault he had in the death of his daughter.
Contrary to Marty's whiny excuses when he was married, looking into the face of evil did not ruin his ability to embrace his family. It heightened it.
Nic Pizzolato wrote for the godawful show "The Killing," and has said that he hated the stupid "cliffhanger" ending to S1. He's also stated what S2 of True Detective will be about.
I accept every thing you are saying but this one: "Marty's daughter was a rebellious teen acting out to get her father's attention away from his booze and mistresses" butthis was just a coincidence? I recognize things don't always get resolved (in real life), but I thought the unresolved nature of Pine Barrens on The Sopranos was a poor resolution and so was this loose end.
DeleteThat's an interesting question. I haven't thought about it much, and I don't recall what information about Dora Lange was either released to the public or talked about by Marty in a way that Audrey could overhear. But if there was a way for Audrey to know about that, then I'd view the scene in the pic @ your link as an early cry for attention.
DeleteHere's what the actress who played Audrey has to say about it.
BTW, I was kidding about Marty's FiL. I think the friction b/w him and Marty was just a way to illustrate how Marty was separating from his family.